- Swinging Out of Reach -


(Halo (c) Microsoft Studios, Bungie & related creators. Red vs. Blue (c) Rooster Teeth. Text (c) L.Q. Coverdale.)


When there is a shadow

Swinging out of the darkness and fire

I hear sirens and screaming

And everyone's flinging

Their arms in the air

As if to reach death

And to embrace it

Glass and blue, green and ash

Swinging out of the ships and spaces

I hear howling and breaking

And everyone's creaking

Their voices ripped

From scorched-black chords

Sleep and weight, all on my chest

Swinging out of anxiety and black

I hear crying and moaning

And everyone's singing

As they always have been

And I am hallucinating

Contact and illusion, all within sights

Swinging out of need and desperation

I hear orders and marching

Fear and then silence

I break a broken record

It's always a forgotten rhyme

Numbers and figures, gone far and away

Swinging out of sky and stormy clouds above

I hear radios chirping

The world is far-flinging

And I've gone to do right

If such a thing can be done

Stars and the void, reaching far beyond,

Swinging out of plasma and fragments of light,

And they'll always be swinging,

And they'll always be slinging,

Out of their reach,

And out of my mind